Intra-destination travel behavior of alpine tourists: a literature review on choice determinants and the survey work

Bartosz Bursa (), Markus Mailer () and Kay W. Axhausen ()
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Bartosz Bursa: University of Innsbruck
Markus Mailer: University of Innsbruck
Kay W. Axhausen: ETH Zurich

Transportation, 2022, vol. 49, issue 5, No 8, 1465-1516

Abstract: Abstract In the face of a continuous increase in the number of tourists in the Alps, the associated traffic volumes, and the resulting negative externalities, there is an urgent need to design policies capable of managing tourist traffic efficiently and to invest in transport systems and infrastructure wisely, given the limited financial, spatial and environmental resources. Unfortunately, while there is a considerable research interest in long-distance travel and arrival/departure patterns of tourists, research on tourist mobility during the stay at the destination is almost non-existent. This prevents policy-makers from making informed decisions backed by scientific evidence. The paper presents a data collection study that contributes to filing this gap. This ‘data paper’ reports on the motivation, design and administration of a bespoke travel-activity survey of tourists at vacation destinations. It informs other researchers about the encountered difficulties and helps them optimize data collection effort in their future studies. Besides the contribution to survey methodology, the paper reports on a rare and policy-relevant dataset, provides descriptive results, and thereby contributes to evidence-based design of transport policies in tourist regions. With this paper, we also want to inspire and invite researchers to conduct further quantitative and modeling work in this under-studied field.

Keywords: Tourist travel behavior; Intra-destination; Tourist survey; Survey design; Survey work; Data paper (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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